Not long ago, the Salem Statesman-Journal, an Oregon newspaper, told the story of a Medford, Oregon man attempting to escape the law. He fled the state, running from charges that he had sexually abused an Oregon girl for four years, beginning when she was just eleven. That power was recently underscored by another story; again from Oregon. MORE
Allison is president of a residential building company in Portland, Oregon, and more famously, a mountain climber and the first American woman to climb Everest, as well as peaks in Pakistan and Russia. MORE
"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump forcefully defended the constitutional right to bear arms here [Franklin, TN] Saturday and argued that the nine people shot and killed this week in an Oregon community college might have survived had they, too, been armed." MORE
Mushroom hunting is big up here in Oregon, and everyone seems to have some experience. We're listening to a piano player singing "Night and Day", drinking local pinot gris and eating a black bean burger with pomme frites in Oregon truffle butter. MORE
By now, most of the country has witnessed the highlight from the first televised game, an Oregon loss. At the conclusion of the game, Oregon tailback LeGarrette Blount punches Boise State linebacker Byron Hout with a closed fist, knocking him to the ground. Not the way first year coach Chip Kelly wanted to start his season, or his coaching career at Oregon. So how did the Coach Kelly, Athletic Director Mike Bellotti and the University of Oregon handle it? MORE
And the XPLANE head quarters is located in one of America's most creative, most livable cities: Portland, Oregon. Do you know XPLANE? If you don't, you should. MORE
I've gotten hooked on It's Not Easy Being Green , about a family who are attempting to become self-sufficient and sustainable in an old farmhouse in Cornwall, and Little People, Big World , about a family of both little people and average-sized people living on a farm in Oregon. MORE
The horror of two murders on the MAX train in Portland, Oregon might be the result of craziness. Or just being naïve about what "freedom" legally means in America. According to the media , the suspect in the murders said: "This is free America, I can do whatever I want." MORE
Links • It's Not Just Mud • ishinomaki2.com NOTE : I grew up in Seaside Oregon , directly on the other side of the Pacific from Ishinomaki. In those days we thought tsunamis in Oregon could be only relatively small and originating far away, allowing several hours time to evacuate. MORE
In Oregon and Washington it is legal only for physical ones. The latest in medical tourism is journeying to Switzerland to address diseases of the soul. Available there are humane options for those who can't find solutions in the U.S. In WIRED, Matthew Honan explains that in Switzerland is available a package of services for despair. That starts with counseling, by a third party who has no investment in the outcome. MORE
The last time the Malheur region of Oregon made the national news, it was the 19 th century, and it was yet another story of armed occupation and mistrust. MORE
I had people commuting and practicing in cars from Maine to Oregon and many states in between. "I''m "I''m still practicing my speech on my way to the office! Okay, not every day, but many days.It''s hard to break habits." MORE
I've also competed in D9 (Eastern WA, NE Oregon, Northern Idaho), and D15 (Utah, Southern, Idaho, Eastern Nevada). And I knew it when I sat down, just like I knew it 10 years ago when I last went overtime, at the Semi-Finals in Oregon. MORE
In Oregon he put together a kind of shelter for himself. "There are hot spots here and there." " That's how an acquaintance summed up his solution to the age-old situation of Civilization and Its Discontents. For access to the internet he walks toward a hot spot. MORE
When I was a 4th grader at Central School in Seaside, Oregon I remember the day our teacher Mr. Doyle asked us to think about what we wanted to be when we grow up and to write our answer down on a piece of paper (you know, the kind of lined paper with chucks of wood still in it). MORE
Most recently, in Oregon the legislature rapidly passed a bill called Pay It Forward (HB 3472) that aims to “provide access for all Oregonians to a debt-free degree and protect funding for public higher education. While proponents in Oregon suggest that the $9 billion needed to start the program could be raised through state bonds, they require voter approval and of course also must be repaid. Take the University of Oregon, for example. MORE
Tim and Roger, having just finished a 12-week public speaking training course with Cascade Employers Association of Salem, Oregon, discuss how it turned out for them. Tim and Roger, having just finished a 12-week public speaking training course with Cascade Employers Association of Salem, Oregon, discuss how it turned out for them. MORE
He's a defendant in a clergy sex abuse lawsuit from Oregon in the U.S. It's difficult to determine, who/what has the biggest branding problem: The Roman Catholic Church itself or its high-profile devout members the Pope and Mel Gibson. The Pope's legal problems are well known. The Pope went to the U.S. Supreme Court to have it tossed and it was a no go. Now, he's joined in big-brand problems but equally prominent RC Mel Gibson. MORE
District Judge in Oregon Marco Hernandez decided that blogger Crystal L. A ruling that has wide implications for alternate media, U.S. Cox was not a journalist. MORE
But last summer I received a note from the DIrector of Marketing at InFocus asking if I would come in to see their technology and meet their staff in Portland, Oregon. With some of the InFocus team at their head offices in Portland, Oregon. "Do you need an in-focus for your meeting?" MORE
It is the 4 August 2005 Keynote Address that Hardt gave at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon. I am referring to Dick Clarence Hardt , founder and CEO of Sxip Identity and a big proponent of Identity 2.0. Unless, of course, you actually do know Dick!). Dick Hardt. The presentation below (which, as you’ll see, was the inspiration for the title of this post) is an old one. MORE
The last week was swept away by Hurricane "Pay It Forward," a new bill advanced by progressives in Oregon. With that in mind, I strongly suspect that some version of Pay It Forward will be enacted not only in Oregon, but in other states as well, and potentially with federal support. MORE
Two of my more amusing experiences: Day One of an ultrasound in medical education conference in Portland Oregon. (Editor''s note: Talk About the Talk is our new series in which I ask speakers I''ve worked with to share their perspective on giving big or important talks. MORE
The Oregon State Supreme Court has lowered the state bar passage score. It had been 284. In the future, it will be 276. No surprise, deans of OR-based law schoold had advocated the score be reduced to 266. MORE
While on vacation in Oregon last week, we stopped off at Multnomah Falls (at 620 feet, it's the second highest year-round waterfall in the country). MORE
That means that it will go to trial in an Oregon district court. In clergy sex abuse lawsuit "John V. Doe v. Holy See," the Vatican contended it was a publicity stunt and without merit since U.S. priests were not "employees" of the Vatican. The U.S. Supreme Court did not agree with that argument. It ruled for the suit, originally filed in 2002 by a Seattle man who claimed that Rev. Andrew Ronan molested him, to move forward. MORE
Thursday, April 30: I'll facilitate another in the Communicating Science series of workshops sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Science Foundation , this time at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore. A check of my calendar shows I'll be speaking in all sorts of places in the next month or two. MORE
I finally was able to grab her - Katy - and look at her tags: address and phone number in Oregon. At this point, I called Animal Control, and right after that called the number in Oregon and left a message. In fact, the dog was visiting from Oregon and was due to return home that day. MORE
So many speakers--men and women--have asked me how they can avoid crying during a speech on a difficult or emotional topic that I've lost count over the years. As someone who has caught glimpses of herself crying, I can relate. MORE
Now the story they broke on Al Gore's alleged sexual gropings in Oregon seems to have prompted the police in that state to take another look at the charges the massage therapist made. A second homerun for the NATIONAL ENQUIRER. There was the story it broke on John Edwards and his affair with Rielle Hunter. MORE
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public radio's business show, Marketplace Money, gave the speech in 2013 at the World Domination Summit in Portland, Oregon. We've featured famous speeches by women who were fired, and some who've made amazing career changes. MORE
Starting today, the National Student Power Convergence is occupying UW-Madison. My home department of Educational Policy Studies is a proud sponsor of this terrific event. It is FREE, open to the public, and the place to be for the next 5 days. UW Alum Maxwell Love , newly elected Vice-President of the United States Student Association, is a key organizer. MORE
It is the 4 August 2005 Keynote Address that Hardt gave at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon. Ahem … I am referring to Dick Clarence Hardt , founder and CEO of Sxip Identity and a big proponent of Identity 2.0. MORE
I will be visiting his foundation’s retreat center in Merlin, Oregon soon and will report back! Happy Spring Everyone! Well, I spent most of March in snowy Massachusetts wearing two coats, scraping ice off my windshield and shoveling snow for my folks. Yet every day I could see flowers called snowdrops coming up through patches of ground. Snowdrops are a beautiful small white flower and they come up and bloom in the snow- even in the worst winter. I LOVE snowdrops. MORE
One of them is Portland, Oregon. Today, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL runs an article about "youth magnet" cities that have few [good] jobs. But is this news? What might have been news is a story about a "youth magnet" city which had tons of [good] jobs. I was among the youth who found Ann Arbor, Michigan in the exciting end of the '60s. A liberal college town, it was a magnet for educated young people. MORE
Last week it was three guys from Oregon, who came from behind in the 800 meters to make the Olympic team, who got me cheering and my blood pumping. In first place: Nick Symmonds from Willamette University and the Oregon Track Club. MORE
On our way to Hood River on Monday we stopped off at Multnomah Falls. Usually I would pose up on that bridge (you can see it toward the bottom of the photo, to the right of the falls), but this time we just stopped by for a quick look. MORE
The Daily Mail reports on the quirky murder-suicide in the Kroecker family in rural Western Oregon. That kind of coverage is becoming its signature, just as conservative politics is that of the Drudge Report. The amazing thing is this: That there are so many suicides-murders to feature. MORE
It was the NATIONAL ENQUIRER which broke the story on Al Gore's alleged inappropriate sex overtures with the massage therapist in Oregon. Now the police in Oregon are reopening that case and the mainstream media there hadn't followed up the allegations, at least not at the time. In Fall 2009, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER posted the story on Tiger Woods's alleged mistress Rachel Uchitel. MORE
And now, reports Keach Hagey in POLITICO.COM, it appears it indeed might have committed a sin of omission, just like the Portland, Oregon police. The PORTLAND TRIBUNE, a piece of the mainstream media, didn't dig into the allegations about sexual misconduct by Al Gore. All this is making it clear that there are few institutions in America we can trust. The mainstream media and the police frequently cave to the powers-that-be. MORE
Below is another example of a good Ignite talk given in my favorite US city, Port land, Oregon by "type nerd" Bram Pitoyo. I'm a huge Pamela Slim fan. I've followed her blog for years, and although we've never met in person, I somehow feel like I know her. MORE
Oregon Related Topics Speak Schmeak
OCTOBER 15, 2008
On our way to Hood River on Monday we stopped off at Multnomah Falls. Usually I would pose up on that bridge (you can see it toward the bottom of the photo, to the right of the falls), but this time we just stopped by for a quick look.
Matt Eventoff
SEPTEMBER 5, 2009
By now, most of the country has witnessed the highlight from the first televised game, an Oregon loss. At the conclusion of the game, Oregon tailback LeGarrette Blount punches Boise State linebacker Byron Hout with a closed fist, knocking him to the ground. Not the way first year coach Chip Kelly wanted to start his season, or his coaching career at Oregon. So how did the Coach Kelly, Athletic Director Mike Bellotti and the University of Oregon handle it?
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
OCTOBER 4, 2015
"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump forcefully defended the constitutional right to bear arms here [Franklin, TN] Saturday and argued that the nine people shot and killed this week in an Oregon community college might have survived had they, too, been armed."
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
DECEMBER 8, 2011
District Judge in Oregon Marco Hernandez decided that blogger Crystal L. A ruling that has wide implications for alternate media, U.S. Cox was not a journalist.
Speaking Of...
JULY 8, 2013
Most recently, in Oregon the legislature rapidly passed a bill called Pay It Forward (HB 3472) that aims to “provide access for all Oregonians to a debt-free degree and protect funding for public higher education. While proponents in Oregon suggest that the $9 billion needed to start the program could be raised through state bonds, they require voter approval and of course also must be repaid. Take the University of Oregon, for example.
Speak Schmeak
JULY 7, 2008
Last week it was three guys from Oregon, who came from behind in the 800 meters to make the Olympic team, who got me cheering and my blood pumping. In first place: Nick Symmonds from Willamette University and the Oregon Track Club.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
AUGUST 24, 2017
The Oregon State Supreme Court has lowered the state bar passage score. It had been 284. In the future, it will be 276. No surprise, deans of OR-based law schoold had advocated the score be reduced to 266.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MAY 27, 2017
The horror of two murders on the MAX train in Portland, Oregon might be the result of craziness. Or just being naïve about what "freedom" legally means in America. According to the media , the suspect in the murders said: "This is free America, I can do whatever I want."
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JANUARY 8, 2017
The Daily Mail reports on the quirky murder-suicide in the Kroecker family in rural Western Oregon. That kind of coverage is becoming its signature, just as conservative politics is that of the Drudge Report. The amazing thing is this: That there are so many suicides-murders to feature.
Speak Schmeak
OCTOBER 23, 2007
Mushroom hunting is big up here in Oregon, and everyone seems to have some experience. We're listening to a piano player singing "Night and Day", drinking local pinot gris and eating a black bean burger with pomme frites in Oregon truffle butter.
Speak and Deliver
MAY 17, 2015
I've also competed in D9 (Eastern WA, NE Oregon, Northern Idaho), and D15 (Utah, Southern, Idaho, Eastern Nevada). And I knew it when I sat down, just like I knew it 10 years ago when I last went overtime, at the Semi-Finals in Oregon.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JULY 1, 2010
Now the story they broke on Al Gore's alleged sexual gropings in Oregon seems to have prompted the police in that state to take another look at the charges the massage therapist made. A second homerun for the NATIONAL ENQUIRER. There was the story it broke on John Edwards and his affair with Rielle Hunter.
Manner of Speaking
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
It is the 4 August 2005 Keynote Address that Hardt gave at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon. Ahem … I am referring to Dick Clarence Hardt , founder and CEO of Sxip Identity and a big proponent of Identity 2.0.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JULY 6, 2010
It was the NATIONAL ENQUIRER which broke the story on Al Gore's alleged inappropriate sex overtures with the massage therapist in Oregon. Now the police in Oregon are reopening that case and the mainstream media there hadn't followed up the allegations, at least not at the time. In Fall 2009, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER posted the story on Tiger Woods's alleged mistress Rachel Uchitel.
Presentation Zen
JULY 9, 2012
Links • It's Not Just Mud • ishinomaki2.com NOTE : I grew up in Seaside Oregon , directly on the other side of the Pacific from Ishinomaki. In those days we thought tsunamis in Oregon could be only relatively small and originating far away, allowing several hours time to evacuate.
Speak Schmeak
OCTOBER 29, 2008
While on vacation in Oregon last week, we stopped off at Multnomah Falls (at 620 feet, it's the second highest year-round waterfall in the country).
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
AUGUST 14, 2017
In Oregon he put together a kind of shelter for himself. "There are hot spots here and there." " That's how an acquaintance summed up his solution to the age-old situation of Civilization and Its Discontents. For access to the internet he walks toward a hot spot.
Manner of Speaking
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
It is the 4 August 2005 Keynote Address that Hardt gave at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention in Portland, Oregon. I am referring to Dick Clarence Hardt , founder and CEO of Sxip Identity and a big proponent of Identity 2.0. Unless, of course, you actually do know Dick!). Dick Hardt. The presentation below (which, as you’ll see, was the inspiration for the title of this post) is an old one.
Speak Schmeak
SEPTEMBER 8, 2007
I finally was able to grab her - Katy - and look at her tags: address and phone number in Oregon. At this point, I called Animal Control, and right after that called the number in Oregon and left a message. In fact, the dog was visiting from Oregon and was due to return home that day.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
SEPTEMBER 22, 2009
In Oregon and Washington it is legal only for physical ones. The latest in medical tourism is journeying to Switzerland to address diseases of the soul. Available there are humane options for those who can't find solutions in the U.S. In WIRED, Matthew Honan explains that in Switzerland is available a package of services for despair. That starts with counseling, by a third party who has no investment in the outcome.
Communication Steroids
FEBRUARY 22, 2010
Not long ago, the Salem Statesman-Journal, an Oregon newspaper, told the story of a Medford, Oregon man attempting to escape the law. He fled the state, running from charges that he had sexually abused an Oregon girl for four years, beginning when she was just eleven. That power was recently underscored by another story; again from Oregon.
The Eloquent Woman
APRIL 15, 2016
public radio's business show, Marketplace Money, gave the speech in 2013 at the World Domination Summit in Portland, Oregon. We've featured famous speeches by women who were fired, and some who've made amazing career changes.
Speaking Success International
APRIL 6, 2009
I will be visiting his foundation’s retreat center in Merlin, Oregon soon and will report back! Happy Spring Everyone! Well, I spent most of March in snowy Massachusetts wearing two coats, scraping ice off my windshield and shoveling snow for my folks. Yet every day I could see flowers called snowdrops coming up through patches of ground. Snowdrops are a beautiful small white flower and they come up and bloom in the snow- even in the worst winter. I LOVE snowdrops.
Presentation Zen
SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
And the XPLANE head quarters is located in one of America's most creative, most livable cities: Portland, Oregon. Do you know XPLANE? If you don't, you should.
Speaking Of...
JULY 14, 2013
The last week was swept away by Hurricane "Pay It Forward," a new bill advanced by progressives in Oregon. With that in mind, I strongly suspect that some version of Pay It Forward will be enacted not only in Oregon, but in other states as well, and potentially with federal support.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JULY 9, 2010
He's a defendant in a clergy sex abuse lawsuit from Oregon in the U.S. It's difficult to determine, who/what has the biggest branding problem: The Roman Catholic Church itself or its high-profile devout members the Pope and Mel Gibson. The Pope's legal problems are well known. The Pope went to the U.S. Supreme Court to have it tossed and it was a no go. Now, he's joined in big-brand problems but equally prominent RC Mel Gibson.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JULY 4, 2010
And now, reports Keach Hagey in POLITICO.COM, it appears it indeed might have committed a sin of omission, just like the Portland, Oregon police. The PORTLAND TRIBUNE, a piece of the mainstream media, didn't dig into the allegations about sexual misconduct by Al Gore. All this is making it clear that there are few institutions in America we can trust. The mainstream media and the police frequently cave to the powers-that-be.
Presentation Zen
JANUARY 25, 2011
But last summer I received a note from the DIrector of Marketing at InFocus asking if I would come in to see their technology and meet their staff in Portland, Oregon. With some of the InFocus team at their head offices in Portland, Oregon. "Do you need an in-focus for your meeting?"
The Eloquent Woman
MAY 24, 2009
Allison is president of a residential building company in Portland, Oregon, and more famously, a mountain climber and the first American woman to climb Everest, as well as peaks in Pakistan and Russia.
Presentation Zen
JANUARY 9, 2014
When I was a 4th grader at Central School in Seaside, Oregon I remember the day our teacher Mr. Doyle asked us to think about what we wanted to be when we grow up and to write our answer down on a piece of paper (you know, the kind of lined paper with chucks of wood still in it).
The Eloquent Woman
MARCH 26, 2009
Thursday, April 30: I'll facilitate another in the Communicating Science series of workshops sponsored by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the National Science Foundation , this time at Oregon State University in Corvallis, Ore. A check of my calendar shows I'll be speaking in all sorts of places in the next month or two.
The Eloquent Woman
FEBRUARY 5, 2015
I had people commuting and practicing in cars from Maine to Oregon and many states in between. "I''m "I''m still practicing my speech on my way to the office! Okay, not every day, but many days.It''s hard to break habits."
The Eloquent Woman
FEBRUARY 26, 2016
The last time the Malheur region of Oregon made the national news, it was the 19 th century, and it was yet another story of armed occupation and mistrust.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
MAY 16, 2009
One of them is Portland, Oregon. Today, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL runs an article about "youth magnet" cities that have few [good] jobs. But is this news? What might have been news is a story about a "youth magnet" city which had tons of [good] jobs. I was among the youth who found Ann Arbor, Michigan in the exciting end of the '60s. A liberal college town, it was a magnet for educated young people.
The Eloquent Woman
JANUARY 29, 2015
Two of my more amusing experiences: Day One of an ultrasound in medical education conference in Portland Oregon. (Editor''s note: Talk About the Talk is our new series in which I ask speakers I''ve worked with to share their perspective on giving big or important talks.
Speaking Of...
AUGUST 1, 2013
Starting today, the National Student Power Convergence is occupying UW-Madison. My home department of Educational Policy Studies is a proud sponsor of this terrific event. It is FREE, open to the public, and the place to be for the next 5 days. UW Alum Maxwell Love , newly elected Vice-President of the United States Student Association, is a key organizer.
Presentation Zen
MAY 14, 2009
Below is another example of a good Ignite talk given in my favorite US city, Port land, Oregon by "type nerd" Bram Pitoyo. I'm a huge Pamela Slim fan. I've followed her blog for years, and although we've never met in person, I somehow feel like I know her.
The Eloquent Woman
DECEMBER 15, 2012
So many speakers--men and women--have asked me how they can avoid crying during a speech on a difficult or emotional topic that I've lost count over the years. As someone who has caught glimpses of herself crying, I can relate.
Speak Schmeak
MAY 16, 2008
I've gotten hooked on It's Not Easy Being Green , about a family who are attempting to become self-sufficient and sustainable in an old farmhouse in Cornwall, and Little People, Big World , about a family of both little people and average-sized people living on a farm in Oregon.
Jane Genova: Speechwriter - Ghostwriter
JUNE 29, 2010
That means that it will go to trial in an Oregon district court. In clergy sex abuse lawsuit "John V. Doe v. Holy See," the Vatican contended it was a publicity stunt and without merit since U.S. priests were not "employees" of the Vatican. The U.S. Supreme Court did not agree with that argument. It ruled for the suit, originally filed in 2002 by a Seattle man who claimed that Rev. Andrew Ronan molested him, to move forward.
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